# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第五十八条 (Article 58) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-58. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 中小企業退職金共済法 (Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act), 昭和三十四年法律第百六十号 - English title "Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五十八条 (Article 58)（機構の目的） — address `art-58` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-58 - e-Gov law ID: 334AC0000000160 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十八条（機構の目的） — Purpose of the Organization caption: machine translation, not official art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-58 **第一項** 機構は、この法律の規定による中小企業の従業員に係る退職金共済制度を運営するとともに、勤労者（勤労者財産形成促進法（昭和四十六年法律第九十二号）第二条第一号に規定する勤労者をいう。）の計画的な財産形成の促進の業務を行うことを目的とする。 art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-58/par-1 The purpose of the Organization is to operate the retirement allowance mutual aid system for employees of small and medium-sized enterprises under the provisions of this Act, and to carry out operations to promote the systematic accumulation of property by workers (meaning workers prescribed in Article 2, item (i) of the Workers' Property Accumulation Promotion Act (Act No. 92 of 1971)). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-58/par-1: 勤労者財産形成促進法（昭和四十六年法律第九十二号）第二条第一号 → e-Gov law 346AC0000000092, 第二条第一項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-2/par-1/item-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第七十条第一項（業務の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-70/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第七十条第二項（業務の範囲） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-70/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 中小企業退職金共済法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/334AC0000000160/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 中小企業退職金共済法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1775), retrieved 2026-09-23 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-011, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 225 — 中小企業退職金共済法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06